#or geologist

[kanizsacollage]

I just bought the most incredible book from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) titled “Young Oceanographer’s Coloring Book About The Research Vessel Neil Armstrong”. It was written by navigator and structural designer of vessels, Peter Zimmerman

It’s a pretty basic book- not a lot of frills. A nice feature is that it gives a color example with each coloring page

Many images are what you would probably expect. Like here we have the vessel going out to sea.

But I what I love love love about this is how this book does NOT simplify for children. Here we have the mechanics of the portable water system and the instrument used to measure seawater conductivity, temperature and depth.

Oh and just straight up floor plans of the galley and mess room.

What ELSE I LOVE is that the author hid little pictures of his cat Smokey and dog Lulu for kids to find. Here we find a kitty rudder and doggy radar:

I just love when educators realize that you don’t have to “dumb down” high level concepts for young brains. Are they going to understand everything? No. But he included a glossary and given time- an interested brain will seek out context given time.

You can buy this book at the WHOI gift shop in person and online here. They have other great titles such as “Build Your Own Underwater Robot and Other Wet Projects” and “Good Night Lab”

#there are many advantages to being a marine biologist #or an oceanographer #or geologist #kids books #I hate Cape Cod #but man I love all of the science in Woods Hole

[courtingwonder]

Guide For The Geological Time Periods In Order

#geology #geologists #charts #graphs #infographics #infographic #time periods #educational #earth #science #interesting

[bethanythebogwitch]

*Elmer Fudd voice* Be vewwy, vewwy, quiet, I'm hunting geowogists

#geology #geologist #geology memes #science memes #elmer fudd #trap

[ninety-two-bees]

geologist remus AU in which he has the largest rock collection known to man but it’s all granite and sandstone and other rocks that no one else thinks look cool

he has his rock hammer and his hard hat and he spends his days in stupid rural areas just looking through soil and in rivers for things he can break open or put under a microscope, and he takes samples home in his pockets even though it means there’s dirt and sand everywhere

queue sirius, who knows nothing about rocks but knows that some minerals are shiny, and he has a great time fidgeting with the pretty minerals that remus thinks are “too boring”

bonus points for remus doing a taste test on his rocks to determine what kind of minerals they are (because yes, that is a genuine way of determining mineral type)

#this is so badly worded i’m sorry #but geologist remus is real to me #he’s so excited about his ugly little rocks #sitting at his desk in his rock design cardigan #and he’s looking at rubies and amethysts under a microscope and going ‘boring’ #because mudstone is cooler #marauders #remus lupin #sirius black

[the-punforgiven]

Hey do the kids of today know about the vast overlap between flails and greatswords

#I'm too deep in medieval/renaissance weapons and martial bullshit to know #I don't wanna become the xkcd geologist of weapons that became obsolete hundreds of years ago #Plus I haven't been keeping up on basically any media that isn't dungeon meshi idk if some show or movie came out that showcases it #pun's text posts

[blueiskewl]

New Mexico Footprints are Oldest Sign of Humans in Americas

Fossil footprints date back to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago, upending previous theory that humans reached continent later.

New research confirms that fossil human footprints in New Mexico are probably the oldest direct evidence of human presence in the Americas, a finding that upends what many archaeologists thought they knew.

The footprints were discovered at the edge of an ancient lakebed in White Sands national park and date back to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago, according to research published on Thursday in the journal Science.

The estimated age of the footprints was first reported in Science in 2021, but some researchers raised concerns about the dates. Questions focused on whether seeds of aquatic plants used for the original dating may have absorbed ancient carbon from the lake – which could, in theory, throw off radiocarbon dating by thousands of years.

The new study presents two additional lines of evidence for the older date range. It uses two entirely different materials found at the site, ancient conifer pollen and quartz grains.

The reported age of the footprints challenges the once conventional wisdom that humans did not reach the Americas until a few thousand years before rising sea levels covered the Bering land bridge between Russia and Alaska, perhaps about 15,000 years ago.

“This is a subject that’s always been controversial because it’s so significant – it’s about how we understand the last chapter of the peopling of the world,” said Thomas Urban, an archaeological scientist at Cornell University, who was involved in the 2021 study but not the new one.

Thomas Stafford, an independent archaeological geologist in Albuquerque, New Mexico, who was not involved in the study, said he “was a bit skeptical before” but now is convinced.

The new study isolated about 75,000 grains of pure pollen from the same sedimentary layer that contained the footprints.

“Dating pollen is arduous and nail-biting,” said Kathleen Springer, a research geologist at the US Geological Survey and a co-author of the new paper.

Ancient footprints of any kind can provide archaeologists with a snapshot of a moment in time. While other archeological sites in the Americas point to similar date ranges – including pendants carved from giant ground sloth remains in Brazil – scientists still question whether such materials really indicate human presence.

“White Sands is unique because there’s no question these footprints were left by people, it’s not ambiguous,” said Jennifer Raff, an anthropological geneticist at the University of Kansas, who was not involved in the study.

#New Mexico Footprints are Oldest Sign of Humans in Americas #fossil #fossil footprints #White Sands national park #ancient artifacts #geology #geologist #archeology #archeolgst #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #ancient man

[iamthepulta]

"Geology is 90% vocabulary" feels like such a poor description of such a large, important topic, but it feels like it would solve so much if people just... had the words to describe the world.

It's so unfair to everyone that the majority of the population's understanding of the world stops at "tectonic plates", "ring of fire", and "rock cycle". It's so unfair.

Everyone deserves to go on a hike, and when the rock changes colors, wonder "what is that?" and be able to answer the question themselves. Everyone deserves to be able to fulfill their curiosity and it is such a disservice that they cannot.

#I saw a reddit post of someone asking why the rock was flaking that way and it /hurt/ that they had to go to reddit to learn the word shale. #And that there are maps that will tell them the rock type wherever they go! It's such a joy they know now! And they were so happy when ppl #told them! But so sad they didn't know. #geology #This is also the struggle talking to non-geologists because they ask something like 'why is the hill shaped like that?' and you can't say #'graben'. You have to translate the lingo into the rock's previous physical movement - but in words.

[cuprohastes]

Visit strange new worlds and pet... Your co-workers

OK look: Allogrooming.

We'll pet anything. Big lizard? Lemme hold it. Fur? Oh god damn yes. Feathers? So burd, much stroke. Tiny octopus with blue rings or a highly toxic nudibranch? Lemme stroke it. Even people petting giant wads of gum.

[puts finger to erpiece] ... that was a cat!? It was pink! ... Hairless you say? mm-hmm... ohh, to shreds you say?

Anyway. I've seen my mother pick up: a decorator crab , a snake, a monitor lizard, and a skunk and pet them.

The skunk was a professional. He was down with it.

Anyway. Imagine the various aliens and their assigned Human (Who's there to carry stuff and do the Human Things), and one day the Geologist comes out and her fur is perfect, and everyone is like... wait there's a fur-stylist on base?

No, but if you let the Human pet you, they'll also groom you, trim your fur, and help you get your dye job right.

And slooowly people are just standing innocently near the Human looking all tactile and groomable, and hey you know humans only have limited amounts of hair?

Did you know they use it for display? Did you know they have thousands of years of cultural history of coming up with really cool decorations?

The relief crew shows up and the on-site team just breeze past with painted feathers, dyed fur, beaded hair, Celtic patterns shaved into their fuzz - as for that one Tsin, what they've had happen to their scales? They got offers. Like serious attention.

#Humans are space orcs #humans are weird #Pet the Geologist

[schisto-city]

Diabase thin section, 50X magnification, crosspolarized light.

#getting to look at these is the coolest part of my job #wanted to share some of it with y'all #apologies for the video quality lol #its a phone camera through an eyepiece #geology #thin section #in which cube is a geologist

[twinsoftriumph]

jolly geologist's spirit memory as dailyquests posts

#i particularly love the Get Wet one even without the dailyquest post. its such a good screenshot #thatskygame #sky cotl #sky: children of the light #jolly geologist #season of moments #ooc #sol talks

[identityquest]

allysion... girl i havent drawn u in 3 years

#sketch #digital art #ocs #oc:allysion #furry #sfw furry #her name is pronounced ah-liss-ee-un #shes one of my many alien cat species... shes the same species as enoseavion and areson. theyre all arteli #arteli have a clan system where different clans handle different careers and study paths. allysion is from a clan of mostly geologists #she specializes in speleology and mining technology. but she also married into a clan that specializes in linguistics #shes the direct ancestor of my oc areson. hes another i dont post often abt... #hes the last in his clan in the modern era and hes the first nonhuman to learn to speak english and communicate w/ romsir and co

[torrikor]

finally re-drew sol with their Actual body type and mostly finalized design :D can't wait to play this absolute terror one day they are one of the most fun characters i've ever made

#it be my art #dnd #dnd badesinger #dnd wizard #drow #they are a fucked up amoral geologist and i love them for it #unfortunately couldn't fit him in here without it looking crowded but they also have a chinchilla familiar #his name is akosyrl it means beloved friend :) #i am once again giving my characters variations of sun/moon/stars imagery #they can have a little eclipse symbolism. as a treat.

[ditzdove]

#dib membrane has gifted kid burn out #adult dib #digital art #art #zim x dib #dib membrane #invader zim art #zadr #shitpost #dib becomes a Geologists #iz zadf #zadf

[yutaan]

A flat-color commission of the client’s Dragonborn geologist (plus a feathery friend)! I had a lot of fun with the big, chunky shapes in her outfit combined with the delicate little steampunk-esque details - she stays a total fashion-plate as she investigates the natural world!

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #dragonborn #geologist #digital #brush pen #my art

[valleyofgays]

learning to draw this guy they are such a blorbo to me

#jolly geologist #season of moments #sky cotl #sky children of the light #thatskygame #sky cotl fanart #skyblr #alwx.png #i was doodling these at like midnight with a pixel brush i just like them

[buggaboizz]

🐟🐠🐡🦈Happy MerMay girlies and gamers 🐟🐠🐡🦈

For the occasion, I drew mer Paani!

(he's a butterfly telescope goldfish)

#if regular land paani is a hydrologist. does that mean mer paani is a geologist? #octonauts #art #octonauts fanart #redesign #octonauts mermaid #mermaid #mermay 2024 #mermay #octonauts paani #paani